More Questions on History
- Q. The Marathas were defeated in Panipat because
A)The Marathas were not equal to Afghans in strength
B)The Marathas did not fight bravely
C)The Maratha army was short of food supplies
D)The Marathas were considered alien by the local population
Answer: The Marathas were not equal to Afghans in strength
- Q. The art style which combines Indian and Greek features is called
A)Verna
B)Sikhara
C)Nagara
D)Gandhara
Answer: Gandhara
- Q. The only Hindu Courtier of Akbar who accepted Din-i-Ilahi was
A)Birbal
B)Todermal
C)Tansen
D)Man Singh
Answer: Birbal
- Q. Who united Norway, Denmark and, Sweden?
A)Eric of Pomerania
B)Albert, King of Sweden
C)Haakon VI of Norway
D)Margaret I of Denmark
Answer: Margaret I of Denmark
- Q. Assertion (A): The largest number of Persian works on classical Indian music was written in Aurangzeb’s reign. Reason (R): Aurangzeb was a great patron of Classical Indian Music.
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: A is true but R is false
- Q. Which of the following is not an important limb of Vedas?
A)Kalpa (Ritual)
B)Siksha (Phonetics)
C)Vyakarna (Grammar)
D)Ashtadhyayi
Answer: Ashtadhyayi
- Q. Who among the following were contemporaries of Kanishka?
A)Nagarjuna, Ashvagosha, Vasumitra
B)Kamban, Banabhatta, Ashvagosha
C)Asvagosha, Kalidasa, Banabhatta
D)Kalidas, Kamba, Vasumitra
Answer: Nagarjuna, Ashvagosha, Vasumitra
- Q. Who was the other Congress leader who joined with Motilal Nehru to start the Swaraj Party in 1923?
A)Chittaranjan Das
B)B. G. Tilak
C)M. K. Gandhi
D)G. K. Gokhale
Answer: Chittaranjan Das
- Q. Which Bhakti Saints venerated in Sikhism, as well as Hindu warrior-ascetic traditions such as the Dadupanthis and the Niranjani Sampraday that emerged in north India during the Islamic rule?
A)Eknath
B)Ramananda
C)Mirabai
D)Namdeva
Answer: Namdeva
- Q. After the initial success of the Revolt of 1857, the objective for which the leaders of the revolt worked was
A)to form a Federation of Indian States under the aegis of Bhadur Shah II
B)to restore the former glory to the Mughal empire
C)elimination of foreign rule and return of the old order
D)each leader wanted to establish his own power in his respective region
Answer: elimination of foreign rule and return of the old order
- Q. The Gupta Saka was founded by
A)Chandra Gupta, the Second
B)Chandra Gupta, the First
C)Samudra Gupta
D)Kumara Gupta
Answer: Chandra Gupta, the First
- Q. Who proclaimed: It is years since I left castes and religions. Yet some people think that I belong to their caste. That is not correct. I do not belong to any particular caste or religion
A)T. K. Madhavan
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Rajaram Mohan Roy
D)Sree Narayana Guru
Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
- Q. As per Pitt’s India Act the Committee of Secrecy would consist of three members of __________
A)The Court of Directors
B)The Board of Control
C)The House of Commons
D)The House of Lords
Answer: The Court of Directors
- Q. Subhash Bose selected the best soldiers from the three existing brigades (named after Gandhi, Azad and Nehru) and organised a new brigade which the soldiers themselves called
A)Swatantra Bharat Brigade
B)Himalayan Brigade
C)Bhagat Singh Brigade
D)Subhash Brigade
Answer: Subhash Brigade
- Q. The communal electorate was introduced for the first time in India in
A)1935
B)1919
C)1906
D)1909
Answer: 1909
- Q. The founder of the Independent Sikh State was
A)Guru Govind Singh
B)Guru Nanak
C)Dalip Singh
D)Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Answer: Maharaja Ranjit Singh
- Q. The Deccan Educational Society founded by
A)Jyotiba Phule
B)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C)Firoz Shah Mehta
D)Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Q. Which was the first garden tomb in the Indian subcontinent?
A)Humayun's Tomb
B)Tomb of Jahangir
C)Taj Mahal
D)Tomb of Muhammad Iqbal
Answer: Humayun's Tomb
- Q. The first Indian Hindi Scholar of the Mughal period was
A)Abdur Rahim
B)Malik Muhammad Jayasi
C)Mulla Wajhi
D)Chand Bardai
Answer: Malik Muhammad Jayasi
- Q. Shivaji founded the Maratha kingdom by annexing the territories of
A)Mughals
B)Bijapur
C)Both (a) and (b) above
D)Bijapur, Golcunda and the Mughals
Answer: Both (a) and (b) above
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